<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title><![CDATA[Sci-Tech - Newslocker]]></title><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/</link><atom:link rel="self" href="https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/rss/" /><atom:link rel="hub" href="http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com" /><description><![CDATA[Find your latest Sci-Tech news with just one click. Don't miss out on anything happening!]]></description><language>en-uk</language><copyright>Copyright (C) 2026 newslocker.com</copyright><lastBuildDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:33:00 +0200</lastBuildDate><item><title><![CDATA[CISA decides weekly vulnerability bulletin isn't necessary anymore]]></title><description><![CDATA[If you rely on the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency&rsquo;s weekly vulnerability bulletin to keep you up to date on the latest threats, we have bad news. It&rsquo;s being discontinued at the end of September. CISA announced on Wednesday that its weekly vulnerability bulletin would stop going out on Monday, September 28, saying the move was part of its shift from managing vulnerabilities based on severity to &ldquo;a modern, risk-based approach.&rdquo; That approach, as CISA expla]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cisa-decides-weekly-vulnerability-bulletin-isnt-necessary-anymore/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 22:33:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/cisa-decides-weekly-vulnerability-bulletin-isnt-necessary-anymore/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[OpenAI's new sponsored agents are happy to chat about selling you things]]></title><description><![CDATA[There's a new kind of agent coming to ChatGPT ads, and this one wants your money. OpenAI has begun testing Sponsored Agents, advertiser-backed bots that try to sell you things as part of a custom conversation. OpenAI said in a Wednesday announcement that Sponsored Agents were now being tested with select US advertisers already using its platform to put sponsored content in front of ChatGPT users. Despite the &ldquo;agent&rdquo; label, however, it seems from OpenAI&rsquo;s description of the new]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openais-new-sponsored-agents-are-happy-to-chat-about-selling-you-things/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 20:32:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/openais-new-sponsored-agents-are-happy-to-chat-about-selling-you-things/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Google Pixel phones pwned in zero-click attacks]]></title><description><![CDATA[Both Google and Uncle Sam warned that attackers have exploited a zero-day improper authorization bug in Pixel phones' cellular modems that can bypass permission checks and escalate privileges with no user interaction required. The hole has since been closed, provided that you update. Google disclosed the high-severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-58704, on Tuesday - and, at the time, warned the security hole &ldquo;may be under limited, targeted exploitation.&rdquo; In other words: miscrea]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/google-pixel-phones-pwned-in-zero-click-attacks/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 19:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/google-pixel-phones-pwned-in-zero-click-attacks/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[DOA: CLARITY Act Torched By Senate Vote, Technocrats Are Livid But Not Deterred]]></title><description><![CDATA[Failure of the CLARITY Act does not stop the tokenization train, but it will slow it down. The SEC and CFTC will now write the rules by exemption, no-action letter, and enforcement discretion. The GENIUS Act provided the settlement layer in 2025, and the banks have already caved to tokenization. The stock markets are already being tokenized. Get ready for my new book, CRUCIBLE OF TOKENS, to figure out what this means to you, so you can take evasive action. &#8259; Patrick Wood, Editor.The Senate]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/doa-clarity-act-torched-by-senate-vote-technocrats-are-livid-but-not-deterred/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:48:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/doa-clarity-act-torched-by-senate-vote-technocrats-are-livid-but-not-deterred/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Enterprises are sweating legacy IT assets as AI investment grows]]></title><description><![CDATA[Companies are getting more selective about replacing legacy kit such as mainframe systems, and rising AI investment is one of the factors causing them to hold onto these existing assets for longer. Managed services biz Ensono claims in its 2026 State of IT Modernization report that 78 percent of IT decision makers regard legacy systems as more important today than they did two years ago, and this is because such systems are viewed as key to making AI work for their organization. The report is ba]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/enterprises-are-sweating-legacy-it-assets-as-ai-investment-grows/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/enterprises-are-sweating-legacy-it-assets-as-ai-investment-grows/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Amazon Says Cloud Infrastructure In Bahrain, UAE ‘Beyond Saving’]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services (AWS) is on the ropes in the Middle East with a collection of wreckage from bombed-out data centers in the UAE and Bahrain. AWS reported, &ldquo;The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withstand.&rdquo; Phrases like &ldquo;damaged beyond hope of recovery,&rdquo; &ldquo;the region went dark,&rdquo; and &ldquo;exhausted every option for recovering whatever was left behind&rdquo; hi]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amazon-says-cloud-infrastructure-in-bahrain-uae-beyond-saving/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:13:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/amazon-says-cloud-infrastructure-in-bahrain-uae-beyond-saving/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nine-year-old runs up $118,000 bill on dad's corporate credit card advertising his Roblox YouTube channel]]></title><description><![CDATA[There&rsquo;s kids running up a few hundred bucks on in-app purchases, and then there&rsquo;s the case of nine-year old YouTuber Mighty Mike Plays, who just cost his dad $118,000 &ndash; and possibly his job &ndash; after running a bunch of Google ad campaigns for his channel on papa's company credit card. The young Roblox and Minecraft YouTuber posted a video Tuesday &ndash; or perhaps it's more apt to say his father Dave posted the video to explain why Might Mike Plays might be going dark for]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nine-year-old-runs-up-118000-bill-on-dads-corporate-credit-card-advertising-his-roblox-youtube-channel/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:51:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/nine-year-old-runs-up-118000-bill-on-dads-corporate-credit-card-advertising-his-roblox-youtube-channel/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UAE Moves To ‘War-Proof’ Its AI Data Centers]]></title><description><![CDATA[&ldquo;War is hell&rdquo; when all of a sudden it dawns on you that your AI data center might be bombed into oblivion. UAE is perilously close to Iran, so its data centers are getting hit. The UAE is a leader in AI and FinTech (Financial Technology) in the Middle East, and wants to be the hinge pin of the global trade routes passing through the region. No AI data centers = no global trade. &#8259; Patrick Wood Editor.The UAE is redrawing its plans for a five-gigawatt artificial intelligence (AI)]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uae-moves-to-war-proof-its-ai-data-centers/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:50:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uae-moves-to-war-proof-its-ai-data-centers/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Fedora 45 beta drags the Linux console into the 21st century]]></title><description><![CDATA[Fedora Linux 45 beta has arrived with Linux kernel 7.2, a release-candidate build of GNOME 51, and extensive changes beneath the desktop. The biggest surprise is that Linux's legacy in-kernel console &ndash; the text-mode interface normally hidden beneath the GUI &ndash; has been replaced with a software-controlled alternative. The replacement is kmscon, a userspace terminal emulator that has been in development for more than a decade. Its Freedesktop project page explains that it uses the kerne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/fedora-45-beta-drags-the-linux-console-into-the-21st-century/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 17:27:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/fedora-45-beta-drags-the-linux-console-into-the-21st-century/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[SpaceX aims Starship for orbit on September 22]]></title><description><![CDATA[SpaceX is aiming for a September 22 launch of its monstrous Starship rocket on a 10-hour mission to deliver 26 Starlink V3 satellites into orbit. The flight, set to launch at 1215 UTC if all goes to plan and the authorities give the green light, will be the first time Starship has gone into orbit, and the mission is planned to fly at an altitude of approximately 275 km. The mission aims for six orbits, followed by a deorbit burn using a single Raptor engine while. The engineers are then planning]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spacex-aims-starship-for-orbit-on-september-22/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:46:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spacex-aims-starship-for-orbit-on-september-22/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[AWS says wartime damage means some Middle East cloud resources are gone for good]]></title><description><![CDATA[Amazon Web Services (AWS) says it is unable to restore access to resources and data in some of its Availability Zones in the Middle East after datacenters were damaged during the US war with Iran. In an update to its AWS Health Dashboard, the cloud giant confirmed that anything hosted exclusively in its Bahrain Region (me-south-1) remains inaccessible. "The damage to our infrastructure spanned multiple Availability Zones and exceeded what our regional and multi-AZ services are designed to withst]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aws-says-wartime-damage-means-some-middle-east-cloud-resources-are-gone-for-good/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 14:11:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/aws-says-wartime-damage-means-some-middle-east-cloud-resources-are-gone-for-good/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Spain gets its first taste of AI-aided cyber attack]]></title><description><![CDATA[Spain&rsquo;s data protection agency (AEPD) has reported the country&rsquo;s first-ever personal data breach caused by the actions of an autonomous AI agent. Francisco P&eacute;rez Bes, president and deputy of the AEPD, said in a Monday blog post that an individual deployed an AI agent that used a &ldquo;known large language model (LLM)&rdquo; to carry out the attack on an organization. The agent scanned &ldquo;generic files&rdquo; before accessing the organization&rsquo;s system, then ran vulne]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spain-gets-its-first-taste-of-ai-aided-cyber-attack/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:56:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/spain-gets-its-first-taste-of-ai-aided-cyber-attack/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Logitech releases the MX Keypad to keep idle fingers busy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Logitech has released the MX Keypad, a developer-focused keypad derived from its MX Creative Console, and something that triggers a distinct sense of d&eacute;j&agrave; vu. Do you remember Stack Overflow's "The Key" Joke? Three keys to copy and paste code from the developer's former best friend (until AI tools began to eat its lunch). Logitech took the keypad from its MX Creative Console product and made something similar to Stack Overflow's joke-that-became-a-thing, though considerably more ext]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/logitech-releases-the-mx-keypad-to-keep-idle-fingers-busy/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 13:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/logitech-releases-the-mx-keypad-to-keep-idle-fingers-busy/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ministry of Justice apologizes after court staff accessed Southport victims' files]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) has apologized after court staff accessed documents relating to victims and survivors of the 2024 Southport murders without authorization. For a limited number of people, the material accessed included sensitive personal data assessed as likely to pose a high risk to their rights and freedoms. There is no evidence that the information was shared with third parties. "We are appalled that this happened and recognise the distress it will have caused victims, survivors,]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ministry-of-justice-apologizes-after-court-staff-accessed-southport-victims-files/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:42:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/ministry-of-justice-apologizes-after-court-staff-accessed-southport-victims-files/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salesforce suffers global outage amid Dreamforce shindig]]></title><description><![CDATA[UPDATED A Salesforce outage is hitting customers with severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access some services, according to the SaaS vendor's status page. The outage has hit hundreds of instances throughout the world, including the USA, Japan, India, the UK, France, and Germany. The service disruption was first reported around 0930 BST (0830 UTC) on September 16. An update at 1010 BST (0910 UTC) by the CRM giant said its investigation indicated that "requests are stalling while]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/salesforce-suffers-global-outage-amid-dreamforce-shindig/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/salesforce-suffers-global-outage-amid-dreamforce-shindig/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salesforce staggers back to feet after global outage]]></title><description><![CDATA[UPDATED An hours-long Salesforce outage on Wednesday hit customers with severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access some services, according to the SaaS vendor's status page. The outage hit hundreds of instances throughout the world, including the USA, Japan, India, the UK, France, and Germany. The service disruption was first reported around 0930 BST (0830 UTC) on September 16. An update at 1219 BST (1056 UTC) said the company had validated and rolled out a fix, and customers we]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/salesforce-staggers-back-to-feet-after-global-outage/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/salesforce-staggers-back-to-feet-after-global-outage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Salesforce customers see service returning to normal after global outage]]></title><description><![CDATA[UPDATED An hours-long Salesforce outage on Wednesday hit customers with severe delays, intermittent errors, and inability to access some services, according to the SaaS vendor's status page. The outage hit hundreds of instances throughout the world, including the USA, Japan, India, the UK, France, and Germany. The service disruption was first reported around 0930 BST (0830 UTC) on September 16. An update at 1219 BST (1056 UTC) said the company had validated and rolled out a fix, and customers we]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/salesforce-customers-see-service-returning-to-normal-after-global-outage/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:06:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/salesforce-customers-see-service-returning-to-normal-after-global-outage/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[BT Email users hit by barrage of unsolicited password reset PINs]]></title><description><![CDATA[BT Email customers say they have been bombarded with hundreds &ndash; and in one case more than 1,000 &ndash; unsolicited password reset messages, leaving the telco investigating what is causing the deluge. The reports began appearing on BT's community forums over the weekend, with customers describing sudden bursts of PIN messages arriving within minutes despite them making no attempt to reset their passwords. One customer said they received between 50 and 70 PIN texts "in the space [of] a few]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bt-email-users-hit-by-barrage-of-unsolicited-password-reset-pins/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:15:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bt-email-users-hit-by-barrage-of-unsolicited-password-reset-pins/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[UK funds flying broadband stations with power beamed from below]]></title><description><![CDATA[The UK's Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) is funding projects aimed at delivering connectivity using high-flying aircraft, including technology to beam power from the ground to keep them in the air. Britain's science and technology body, inspired by America's DARPA but on a more modest budget, says it is backing 18 projects to develop aircraft capable of operating reliably and cost-effectively in the stratosphere, as part of a program known as Enduring Atmospheric Platforms. Success]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-funds-flying-broadband-stations-with-power-beamed-from-below/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 10:30:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/uk-funds-flying-broadband-stations-with-power-beamed-from-below/</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bring on the AI swarms. They’re the only thing that can defend us now that AI is free]]></title><description><![CDATA[Unpredictable token bills haunted the first half of 2026 as AI experimenters pushed deeper into the tech and often found useful results could only be achieved after surprising and unwelcome expenditure. We've gone from tokenmaxxers to tokenmisers, counting every character we send to AI services. That changed the way we used AI, focusing users on the ticking meter and unable to cast their eyes up and explore the possible. Those blinkers fell away in the middle of August when Alibaba delivered Qwe]]></description><link>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bring-on-the-ai-swarms-theyre-the-only-thing-that-can-defend-us-now-that-ai-is-free/</link><pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2026 08:31:00 +0200</pubDate><guid>https://www.newslocker.com/en-uk/news/sci_tech/bring-on-the-ai-swarms-theyre-the-only-thing-that-can-defend-us-now-that-ai-is-free/</guid></item></channel></rss>